Former Detroit Lions wide receiver Calvin Johnson has been spotted at Miami Dolphins training camp.
NFL Network Reporter Tom Pelissero tweeted a photo of Megatron catching and throwing passes with Dolphins wide receivers.
Calvin Johnson is here at #Dolphins practice. Knows WR coach Shawn Jefferson from Det. CJ will hang with WRs here. Assures me he's retired.
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) August 7, 2017
Still looks like Calvin's in pretty good shape though (in the hat). pic.twitter.com/COcJKVFKxA
— Tom Pelissero (@TomPelissero) August 7, 2017
This isn't Johnson's first stop at an NFL camp this year. He visited the Oakland Raiders as a special guest during OTAs in May.
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Lions President Rod Wood said they have invited Johnson to training camp, but it appears he has not accepted the offer. At least, not yet.
"I did invite him out to training camp. We'll see if he does that," Wood said. "Hopefully he shows up. He's a great player, we want to have him kind of in the tent, not outside the tent. And hopefully that's the way it ends up."
The invite came just a week after he admitted the Lions' losing record impacted his decision to retire.
"I was stuck in my contract with Detroit, and they told me, they would not release my contract, so I would have to come back to them. I didn’t see the chance for them to win a Super Bowl at the time, and for the work I was putting in, it wasn’t worth my time to keep on beating my head against the wall … and not going anywhere," he said to Italian media.
This wasn't the first time Johnson admitted his dismay for the Lions after his retirement.
He told the Detroit Free Press in May that he was unhappy with how things ended, especially because they asked him to repay a portion of his $16 million signing bonus.
